Mr. Mattes is the retired Chief Executive Officer, President and board member of Coherent, Inc., a position he held from April 2020 to July 2022. From June 2019 until joining Coherent, he was a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company. From 2013 to 2017, he was the Chief Executive Officer and board member of Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated, and also served as its President from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Mattes was Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships at Violin Memory in 2013. He has also held various senior management positions with Hewlett-Packard Co. From 2008 to 2011, he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard s Enterprise Services for the Americas, and from 2006 to 2008, he was Hewlett Packard s Chief Sales Officer for the Enterprise Business. Mr. Mattes spent the first 20 years of his career, from 1985 to 2005, at Siemens, holding a variety of senior leadership positions. Mr. Mattes has over 20 years of public board experience on three continents and he currently also serves on the board of ams-OSRAM AG, a position he has held since June 2023. Mr. Mattes joined the Supervisory Board of AT&S AG (Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik) in July 2025 and was appointed Chairman at that time. He previously served on the board of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., from 2022 until its merger with Ouster in February 2023 (2022-2023). We believe Mr. Mattes qualifications to sit on our Board include his substantial technology industry experience, experience as Chief Executive Officer and board member of publicly traded companies, and extensive experience in managing large global businesses, sales organizations and mergers and acquisitions.